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Francis Montague Wells papers
Collection — Container: 09.0040 - Box 1
Identifier: 09.0040
Scope and Contents
The Francis Montague Wells collection, consisting of seventy-one letters, offers the insight and perspective of an enlisted Private First Class with the 119th Infantry Regiment, 30th Infantry Division, in the European campaign during World War II. The collection also contains two photographs of Francis Wells and a letter from his daughter Peggy Wells Hughes.
Dates:
Created: 1944-1945; Other: Majority of material found in 1945; Other: Date acquired: 04/28/2009
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James Lockett papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 00.0889
Scope and Contents
James William Lockett served in the U.S. Army 28th Infantry Regiment, 8th Infantry Division, 1st Army, in the European (ETO), North African, and Mediterranean Theaters. Colonel Lockett was a 1928 West Point graduate. The collection includes a ten-page manuscript entitled "The March," which is about Lockett's serving with the Army in the European Theater and being a POW. Lockett was made to march by German guards with approaching Russians in January 1945. He discusses his encounters with the guards and the people along "the March." In March 1945, US artillery takes the Serbian compound where they were and freed them. Also, he describes the subsequent days to get out of danger, and he is...
Dates:
Created: 1943-1945; Other: Majority of material found in 1944; Other: Date acquired: 12/08/2000
Found in:
FSU Special Collections & Archives
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